Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Nannaya -- 2. Nannĕcoḍa -- 3. Pālkuriki Somanātha -- 4. Tikkana -- 5. Mañcana -- 6. Ĕṟṟāpragaḍa -- 7. Nācana Somanātha -- 8. Śrīnātha -- 9. Bammĕra Potana -- 10. Annamayya -- 11. Allasāni Pĕddana -- 12. Kṛṣṇadevarāya -- 13. Nandi Timmana -- 14. Dhūrjaṭi -- 15. Tĕnāli Rāmakṛṣṇa -- 16. Nūtana-kavi Sūranna -- 17. Piṅgaḷi Sūranna -- 18. Appakavi -- 19. Kṣetrayya -- 20. Śatakas -- 21. Cāṭu Verses -- 22. Śāhāji -- 23. Samukhamu Veṅkaṭakṛṣṇappa Nāyaka -- 24. Muddupaḷani -- 25. Tyāgarāja -- Bibliography -- Index The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, providing an authoritative volume overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. An informative, engaging introduction fleshes out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Nannaya -- 2. Nannĕcoḍa -- 3. Pālkuriki Somanātha -- 4. Tikkana -- 5. Mañcana -- 6. Ĕṟṟāpragaḍa -- 7. Nācana Somanātha -- 8. Śrīnātha -- 9. Bammĕra Potana -- 10. Annamayya -- 11. Allasāni Pĕddana -- 12. Kṛṣṇadevarāya -- 13. Nandi Timmana -- 14. Dhūrjaṭi -- 15. Tĕnāli Rāmakṛṣṇa -- 16. Nūtana-kavi Sūranna -- 17. Piṅgaḷi Sūranna -- 18. Appakavi -- 19. Kṣetrayya -- 20. Śatakas -- 21. Cāṭu Verses -- 22. Śāhāji -- 23. Samukhamu Veṅkaṭakṛṣṇappa Nāyaka -- 24. Muddupaḷani -- 25. Tyāgarāja -- Bibliography -- Index The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, providing an authoritative volume overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. An informative, engaging introduction fleshes out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit
